How he fell From Heaven they fabled thrown by angry Jove, Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve A summer's day; and with the setting sun, Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.
The heavenly colloquies to which we have alluded between the Father and the Son, involve questions of theology, and present peculiar views--such as the subordination of the Son, and the relative unimportance of the third Person of the Blessed Trinity.

They establish Milton's Arianism almost as completely as his Treatise on Christian Doctrine.
HIS FAULTS .-- Grand, far above all human efforts, his poems fail in these representations.

God is a spirit; he is here presented as a body, and that by an uninspired pen.

The poet has not been able to carry us up to those infinite heights, and so his attempt only ends in a humanitarian philosophy: he has been obliged to lower the whole heavenly hierarchy to bring it within the scope of our objective comprehension.

He blinds our poor eyes by the dazzling effulgence of that light which is ...